Alf Alf Mabrouk for blogger and friend Wael Abbas, who has been voted Middle East Person of the Year by readers of CNN’s Inside the Middle East blog..

[Wael at the reception following the end of the BBC Debate. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]

Jealous by what happened, Mubarak decided to promote General Ahmad Diaa Eddin, the Interior Ministry’s mouthpiece they always bring in front of Wael on TV (and who always ends up screwed, and who gave the infamous statement of “we torture only 5% of detainees in custody”) to the rank of First Assistant to the Interior Minister…

So, Mabrouk for Wael and Mabrouk for Diaa…